The blog of author Betsy Kerekes

What? That’s not a good answer?

My daughter’s science assignment is to come up with analogies for the parts of a cell. My husband is helping her with ideas like a factory and an assembly line. I’m in the kitchen yelling my own suggestions: “gun runners, the Nazi regime, slave traders, illegal high stakes gambling…” Since she has to turn this in, I thought it would be fun to have totally inappropriate responses. Husband’s like, we’d be called for a teacher conference, be shown this, and say, “Oh good. She toned it down.”

The girls decided to decorate their baby brother while I wasn’t looking.

I learned something interesting today. The term indentured servant comes from when master and servant would write up their contract on a piece of paper, then tear the paper, each person keeping half. To verify the contract, they would line up the indents on the torn side of the paper. Neat, no?

Your daughter could write the “story of a cell” with your suggestions–it’d be an action-packed, adrenaline-inducing adventure! Love the decorating! Tell the girls to enjoy dressing him up now, because little brothers have a tendency to stop sitting still when they get older 😀 And wow, fun fact about indentured servants. I never would have guessed.

Still working on your chapter–sorry. Been a crazy few weeks, but now that tennis is over, things should quiet down (I don’t have to pick up my daughter’s shift at the library). Then again, there’s something about being in a library…

Ha. I do love libraries. We go every Saturday, but sometimes my girls beg us to go sooner than that. It’s not a bad problem to have! I did a little more with ch. 5 after I sent it to you, but only stuff like deleting a few thens. Nothing major. If I finish ch. 6 before you start ch. 5, I’ll resend. But don’t let that hold you back should the mood strike you!

If your daughter actually used your suggestions, you could tear her paper with a ‘F’ on it in half, just as a reminder to you both that your husband should always help with homework as her indentured servant….you win both ways then!!!

You’re right. There were so many ways we could’ve gone with that.
The poor baby brother is mostly clueless about what’s happening to him most of the time. Some day that will change in a big way, however.

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